Instrumentation: Organ
Commission: Gail Archer
Premiere:
4/11/18
Convocation Hall, University of Alberta
Alberta, CA
Program Note:
The title Dust and Shadow comes from Book IV, Ode vii of the Odes of Horace. The original Latin is ‘Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.) It speaks to our ephemeral natures, and suggests to me that of music as well ...

Instrumentation: Stereo electronics
Duration: 7:14
Premiere: 5/20/13
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Program Note:
Tape Music is a meditation on tape as a collection of materials that are emblematic of our throwaway culture and yet can be used to mend items that would otherwise be thrown away themselves. It is also a nostalgic tribute to the genre of tape ...

Instrumentation: Small cardboard box, blunt pencil or similar object, packing tape on a dispenser with teeth, and stereo electronics
Duration: 5:00
Premiere: 11/2/13
Third Practice Festival, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Program Note:
Tape Music∞ (2013) is a participatory performance piece for any number of participants plus stereo electronics created from recordings I made of myself ripping, cutting and otherwise playing with tape ...